Hands-on with For Honor’s brutal sword combat

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 17, 2016
Updated June 19, 2025
3 min

Ubisoft’s For Honor makes me feel like in the middle of a huge medieval battle, like the melee-in-the-mud battles in the film Braveheart. And then a Japanese samurai or a Viking with a giant battle ax shoes up.

Ahead of the Gamescom event in Germany, Ubisoft showed off the latest build of For Honor, which will ship on multiple platforms in early 2017. It’s an important, brand-new game for the French video game publisher, whose strategy focuses on the creation of high-risk, high-reward original intellectual properties in an industry full of sequels.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.